Information Age
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Information Age
🌍 # 218 La web, tal como la conocĂamos, está dejando de existir
Alex RayĂłn Jerezdigitaldata.substack.com
When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom. Yet the internet inundates users with the opinions of thousands, even millions, of other users, depriving them of the solitude required for sustained reflection that, historically, has led to the development of convictions.
Eric Schmidt • The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.